Chantelle Marshall

“How could I just turn my back on him like this? But how could I stay? It isn’t the money. It isn’t. I’d gladly give him every cent I have. Because the truth is, I really can put up with the fact that he thought I was fat. And I can put up with the fact that he apparently complained about my fatness to his family. And I can put up with the gambling, and even with the fact that he pretended like he couldn’t come so I would give him a blow job. But defrauding poor people? Because that is basically what someone who takes unemployment while having a paying job is doing. That I cannot tolerate.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble

“unyielding loyalty to a man I despise—is that Lidia North is a weak woman. Timid. Milquetoast. She has no metal in her spine, no opinions of her own. I need my friends to be interesting. To have vim and vigor.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? —L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables”
― Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

“Some people have said it all by the time they’re twenty-two or twenty-five, but I don’t get that feeling with Hendrix or Joplin. I don’t think they were finished.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock 'n' Roll Survivor